School will have found out their GCSE results yesterday. There is an understandable tendency to be at one or other extreme of the emotional continuum. Results matter a lot to teachers and school leaders. Continue reading
The best piece of art I managed to produce was part of a painting by number kit; my mum and dad bought it for me one Christmas. The idea was simple; a line drawing where each part had a number, corresponding to a paint colour, you completed bit by bit. It was mechanistic and whilst leading to a reasonable outcome it wasn’t a masterpiece. Continue reading
The presentation for ResearchEd in York was about key priorities; what’s your 9 or 10/10 and Why? Sitting behind this idea about key priorities was the need to fundamentally re-culture our schools and how our priorities, what we spend our time on, had changed.